oss-security - Re: source for CVE feed (was: Re: CVE request: httrack buffer overflow)

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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@...ian.org>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: source for CVE feed (was: Re: CVE request: httrack
 buffer overflow)

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> Good to know. Here at Debian we currently import all CVEs into our own system,
> and we use http://cve.mitre.org/data/downloads/allitems.html.gz as the source
> for that.

In recent months, this has been updated once or twice a week, but it will
become a daily process fairly soon (we have a new content team member
who'll be helping with the site updates).

- Steve

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